praeverto Latin · revision 33877

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *wert-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [prae̯ˈwɛr.toː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [preˈvɛr.to]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''praevertō''' (present infinitive praevertere, perfect active praevertī, supine praevertum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Plautus mostly writes ''praevortō'', and he also has a deponent ''praevertor''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|prae-|vertō|t1=before|t2=to turn]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) Wiktionary traces [[m|la|vertō]] to [[ine-pro|*wert-|t=to turn]].^(Wiktionary) The TLL notes that the spelling ⟨-vort-⟩ is kept in the old manuscripts of Plautus, and the OLD that it is usual in his text.^(TLL)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it first, in the ''Miles gloriosus'', of turning a cup towards oneself before others, and in the ''Casina'' of forestalling the men.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ From turning something in a direction first it came to mean outrunning or overtaking, as in Catullus' runner who outstrips the hind,^(OLD 2012) and forestalling or anticipating, often so as to prevent something.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Plautus also uses it of a fear that takes hold of the mind first.^(OLD 2012) With the sense of attending to one matter before others it is common in Livy, of the tribunes letting the war be dealt with first.^(OLD 2012) Plautus has a deponent ''praevertor'' in that sense, which Lewis & Short find only in the present tense.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short also give the sense "to prefer", from Plautus' ''Amphitruo''.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Stelten glosses it "go before, anticipate, surpass" in Church Latin.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of directing something first and of forestalling.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus, of outrunning a hind.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy, of attending to a matter first.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To direct or turn something first (in a given direction).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To [[m|en|outstrip]], outrun, overtake.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To [[m|en|forestall]], [[m|en|anticipate]], often so as to prevent; to take hold of the mind first, preoccupy.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To attend to something first, deal with before other things.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(deponent'' praevertor'')'' To turn one's attention first to, concern oneself chiefly with.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To [[m|en|prefer]], put before.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vertō]]

+ * [[en|prevert]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}